In the lawsuit, Allman claims principal photography on "Midnight Rider"
needed to be completed by Feb. 28, according to the option agreement he and the
producing team signed. But the production was halted on Feb. 20 when crewmember
Jones, 27, was killed by a train during pre-production filming.

After that fatal incident, producers publicly announced they would suspend
work on the film indefinitely.

On March 5, the lawsuit says, Allman notified the producers that their option
to make the movie based on his life story had expired. But a producer with
Unclaimed Freight Productions, one of the companies named in the suit,
apparently posted a message to the trade workers union IATSE website on April 16
saying production would move to Los Angeles from Georgia and resume by early
June.

"Defendants have unambiguously expressed their firm intentions to proceed
with production of the motion picture under the Formal Option Agreement, as
amended, by the beginning of June," the complaint reads.

Allman made a public plea for Unclaimed Freight and Film Allman LLC not to
finish the film on April 25, two days after "Midnight Rider" star William Hurt
withdrew from the production.

Now, this lawsuit aims to force "Midnight Rider" to shut down, as the biopic
cannot proceed without the rights to tell the singer's life story.